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Can we STOP people from STALLING?
Everyone is stalling in my rapid 10|0 games when they are losing!
I undoubtedly have come across many occasions where the person in your opposition gives up in rage and loss, but wants to punish their opponent just for devouring any hope of them winning. In annoyance the winning person has to wait until their opponent loses on time or they lose on game abandonment. During the stalled game, the winning person has to wait many minutes in boredom and time is lost. The people who have stalled to me occurred most when I was in lower ratings, but still bad sportsmanship still happens when someone is losing in utter anger.
I'm not blaming everyone, as most of you are nice. But I'm just asking if there is or will ever be a way to stop this insanity. The stalling people usually take 5-60 minutes. In my rapid games (for getting trophies for leagues) stallers often annoy me because this is wasting my time. The time that should be used to play chess.
Please stop.
+1 = agree
I had this one time on lichess, it was m1 for me but my opponent didn't wan't to make the move and just let the time run out.. I kindly said that he knew it was mate and admit the defeat.. he didn't so I gave him up to 20m extra time until he finally made a move so I could checkmate him.. Nhaha at the beginning I was a bit frustrated but after a while I thought by myself if he want's to play it like this.. I also can... I waited for over 20min until he finally made a move.. so the unevitable mate could be played ..
Everyone is stalling in my rapid 10|0 games when they are losing!
I undoubtedly have come across many occasions where the person in your opposition gives up in rage and loss, but wants to punish their opponent just for devouring any hope of them winning. In annoyance the winning person has to wait until their opponent loses on time or they lose on game abandonment. During the stalled game, the winning person has to wait many minutes in boredom and time is lost. The people who have stalled to me occurred most when I was in lower ratings, but still bad sportsmanship still happens when someone is losing in utter anger.
I'm not blaming everyone, as most of you are nice. But I'm just asking if there is or will ever be a way to stop this insanity. The stalling people usually take 5-60 minutes. In my rapid games (for getting trophies for leagues) stallers often annoy me because this is wasting my time. The time that should be used to play chess.
Please stop.
+1 = agree
The majority on here at chess.com are not nice, most are vile a holes, chess players in general are mostly vile arrogant a holes.
The fact that till this day they haven't implemented the simplest and easy solution to this problem, i.e. time limit per move (e.g. 2 mins) is beyond all understanding and human logic.
This is why I never play >15:00 time controls. There is no need for more than 15-20 minutes anyway. If you're taking that long, you're either lagging or in a really horrible position and too stubborn to resign. Exceptions are not common enough to justify it.
It's easy, if your opponent stalls just resign and you'll get a new game without having to deal with stalling!
https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8562517-how-do-i-report-someone
If people are stalling then best to report them,